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Lesson 14: Synoptic Scale Background
Characteristics of a Developing System
A developing, or strengthening, system often exhibits one or more of the following features:
- The cloud band increases in brightness, the cloud water content is increasing.
- An S-shape develops and amplifies,
- An area of vorticity is located within 10 degrees latitude west, or poleward, of the baroclinic leaf, and approaches the leaf,
- Formation of a dry slot that expands behind the cloud band,
- Polar jet streak approaches the cloud band from the west-northwest direction.
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